{"id":211000,"date":"2016-05-02T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211000"},"modified":"2016-05-02T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:21:03","slug":"magic-system-drummer-pepito-drowns-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211000","title":{"rendered":"Magic System drummer Pepito drowns in Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The drummer of Ivory Coast&#8217;s famous Magic System band has drowned at the age of 46, the group has said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Didier Deigna, known by the stage name Pepito, drowned at a beach in the small town of Jacqueville in southern Ivory Coast on Sunday, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Magic System are particularly popular in French-speaking West Africa and in France.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say Pepito died while trying to save another person who was drowning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last 16 years, Pepito was our backing vocalist, our drummer, but above all the conductor with our group Magic System,&#8221; the band added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Pepito&#8217;s tragic loss comes a week after the sudden death of influential Congolese musician Papa Wemba, who collapsed on stage while performing in Ivory Coast&#8217;s main city, Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drummer of Ivory Coast&#8217;s famous Magic System band has drowned at the age of 46, the group has said in a Facebook post. Didier Deigna, known by the stage name Pepito, drowned at a beach in the small town of Jacqueville in southern Ivory Coast on Sunday, it said. Magic System are particularly popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}